Example sentences of "than [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 2 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 3 | I can assure you that did less than nothing for my morale at the time . |
| 4 | Then he stared at the phone rather than me for about a minute until the door opened . |
| 5 | They 're quite good it looks better than them for office do n't it ? they 're dual power battery and solar |
| 6 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |
| 7 | Early in life she had managed to change roles with me , so that I felt responsible for her , rather than she for me . |
| 8 | She 's worse than you for the bingo . |
| 9 | Professionals segregate according to expert criteria , but ‘ what is it to be human ? ’ sounds like a philosophical question — in which case it is also a political one — rather than something for experts to decide . |
| 10 | Free impasto work will require a different type of brush than one for the application of thin washes . |
| 11 | The wily captain 's luck was holding in more ways than one for the customs search team found that one of the French shells had ricochetted down an alleyway , through the door of the Captain 's cabin and had embedded itself in the leg of a table where the occupant would have been sitting . |
| 12 | OF 2 , for instance , has six more AOs ( four valence-shell orbitals on each fluorine , rather than one for each hydrogen in H 2 O ) and hence six more MOs . |
| 13 | Furthermore , even if a surplus of wool was produced , there was perhaps more hope of selling it to the developing cloth industry than of disposing of grain which was not required , as a demand for clothing can be more flexible than one for food when men have additional purchasing power ( 59 ; 62 ) . |
| 14 | Okay so , income elasticities are less than one for agriculture , whereas they 're greater than one for manufacturing er , much less scope to differentiate in agricultural products , much more scope to differentiate in manufactured goods . |
| 15 | The provisions below apply to cases where a claim other than one for money is made ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) and since unliquidated damages can not be the " whole sum " to which Ord 11 , r 2 ( above ) applies they appear to apply as well where unliquidated damages are claimed . |
| 16 | Where it is desired to make an offer to settle a claim other than one for a sum of money by making a written offer " without prejudice save as to costs " , the offer should be filed with the court ; it is not brought to the attention of the court until the question of costs falls to be decided : Ord 11 , r 10 . |
| 17 | A database for a short exercise on the scientific properties of WATER may , for example , be easier to index initially than one for a project on the lives and achievements of famous people , where there may be greater scope for individual interpretation . |
| 18 | Two heads are better than one for Bruce Campbell . |
| 19 | He 's got two thirds of a bloody great American salary four times greater than mine for doing similar work . |
| 20 | Goalscorers are under the microscope more than anyone for England after the retirement of Gary Lineker and that reassurance of a definite period to prove himself would settle Ian . |
| 21 | " The Moslem Brothers , who are more anxious than anyone for the stability of Egypt and the welfare of its citizens adhere to legal means in their preaching and the defence of their right to undertake activities to realise their goals , " he said . |
| 22 | There 's nothing higher than us for miles , or whatever you call those things ! |
| 23 | Er the housing associations approached both have better records than us for rent collection and better records on void times . |
| 24 | Is he paying more than us for apparatus cos I think they 've bought one phone but the other one |